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World champ Chris Hart talks tailgating and competitive BBQ

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Chris Hart runs the world-champion iQue barbecue team with Andy Husbands, Ed Doyle and an all-star team of local chefs.

We ran a great story on Hart this week in the print and online Herald, looking at his victory in the 2009 Jack Daniel's world barbecue championship and his book "Wicked Good Barbecue." We including his recipe for turkey skin snack chips. Unbelievable.

I also talked to Hart yesterday in depth about tailgating, about his book and about the competitive barbecue circuit in my Cold, Hard Football Facts radio show on Patriots.com. The Hart interview starts at the 1:17 mark of the broadcast. Yes, he'll be back at the Jack Daniel's world championship in Lynchburg, Tenn. for the 2012 competition next month.

He discusses some of his tailgating tips and talks about how he and Husbands discovered the magic of grilling and barbecuing from chef Chris Schlesinger, the former owner of the landmark East Coast Grill in Cambridge. Good stuff from one of the world's great barbecue chefs.